Mary Todd Lincoln
Mary Todd Lincoln
Mary Ann Todd Lincolnwas the wife of the 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln, and was First Lady of the United States from 1861 to 1865. She dropped the name Ann after her younger sister, Ann Todd , was born, and did not use the name Todd after marrying...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionFirst Lady
Date of Birth13 December 1818
CountryUnited States of America
definitely
I don't think I'm allowed to talk about that. It is definitely not me. The role has been cast.
spiritual past soul
These Souls with great Material Possessions were allowed this because of Past Good Works in their Previous Life, but now feel there is no need for Spiritual Progress. They are too easily forgetting why they were granted this Material Wealth in the first place. Therefore we must stop them from accumulating more Material Gains to Guide them back to the right path.
grief silence tears
In grief, words are a poor consolation - silence and agonizing tears are all that is left the sufferer.
morning husband lakes
Tell me, how can I live without my Husband any longer? This is my first awakening thought each morning, and as I watch the waves of the turbulent lake under our windows I sometimes feel I should like to go under them.
christian religious husband
My husband is not a Christian but is a religious man, I think.
beautiful country scotland
Beautiful, Glorious Scotland, has spoilt me for every other country.
father never-quit quitting
If you keep making jokes like that, somebody is going to shoot you, father.
atheism usual no-hope
Mr. Lincoln had no hope, and no faith, in the usual acceptation of those words.
blessing suffering convinced
I am convinced, the longer I live, that life and its blessings are not so entirely unjustly distributed as when we are suffering greatly we are inclined to suppose.
angel land cities
He (Abraham Lincoln) said he wanted to visit the Holy Land and see those places hallowed by the footprints of the Saviour. He was saying there was no city he so much desired to see as Jerusalem. And with the words half spoken on his tongue, the bullet of the assassin entered the brain, and the soul of the great and good President was carried by the angels to the New Jerusalem above.
men house good-man
I would rather marry a good man, a man of mind, with a hope and bright prospects ahead for position, fame and power than to marry all the houses, gold and bones in the world.
path placement knows
No one has ever lived who knows better than you the proper placement of footfalls on treacherous paths.
procrastination evil genius
My evil genius Procrastination has whispered me to tarry 'til a more convenient season.
fall rain states
Others live on in a careless and lukewarm state - not appearing to fill Longfellow's measure: 'Into each life, some rain must fall.'